Flags of the World

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The official FOTW flag was designed by Mark Sensen. Click
on the flag to view its history and meaning. This waving flag was drawn by
Pascal
Gross.

FOTW pages in Focus

(Vexillology Highlights)

Prime Minister Voreqe
Bainimarama's of Fiji
announced on 17 August that attempts to change its flags
have been terminated. "While I remain convinced personally that we need to replace some of the flag's colonial symbols with a genuinely indigenous expression of our present and our future, it has been apparent to the government since February that the flag should not be changed for the foreseeable future,"

ICV 27 - The next biennial International Congress of Vexillology will be held at
Imperial College, Kensington, London, England, on 7-11 August 2017. Website:
http://www.icv27.co.uk

FOTW (Flags of the World) is a site originally established by Giuseppe Bottasini and others devoted to the study of vexillology in 1994. Since then the site has been constantly fed with news and images posted
to the FOTW mailing list and with other contributions from
interested readers and visitors. Flags of the World is produced and maintained by an Editorial
Staff of unpaid volunteers and the contents of these pages are offered freely to the Internet community.
Accessing this site implies an acceptance of the following: disclaimers and copyright
rules. See also our page about the history of FOTW.

ISSN 1712-9842

Welcome area

Welcome to Flags of the World

Flags of the World (FOTW), founded in 1994, is the
Internet’s largest site devoted to vexillology
(the study of flags). Here you can read more than 63,000 pages about
flags and view more than 126,000 images of flags of countries,
organizations, states, territories, districts and cities, both past and
present.

Searching for Flags on this Website

There are many ways to find flags on this website. Choosing “Index
by Country” will take you straight to the country’s page, once
there you will find pathways to the national, state, municipal, military,
historical, and cultural flags and ensigns of the country. Choosing “Index
by Subject” will do the same, but in a more limited manner.
Choosing “Search Site by a Topic or Subject” will search the whole
FOTW website looking for pages that have information that matches your search
criteria. This last method will gather the most information for you. For those
more graphic in nature, you can use the “clickable map” method to
find your flag. In case you don’t know the origin of a flag you can
try using off-site identifiers such as Ed Mooney’s
The Flag Wizard or Ivan
Sarajčić’s The Flag
Identifier.

Site Indexed by Country

(Select the beginning letter by clicking the letter
or corresponding signal flag)

Do you want to update or build your own copy of this site?
Check
build your own local copy or mirror of FOTW
website.

FOTW Mailing List

The Flags of the World Mailing List is the official Mailing List of the Flags of the World web
site (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flags/). Be warned: The
volume of mail on the list will vary between 1000 and 2000 messages a month. Please read the rules before
posting.

Call for Editors

Interested in helping maintain this site? Pages are edited by volunteer editors —
qualifications include a keen interest in flags and a willingness to learn html editing. Graphics (flag images)
require a willingness to work with graphics programs.

FOTW and FIAV

FOTW has been a full member of the Fédération internationale
des associations vexillologiques (International Federation of
Vexillological Associations), FIAV, since 2001.
FIAV is an international federation consisting of 52 regional, national,
and multinational associations and institutions that study and encourage the
study of vexillology.